Policing methamphetamine : narcopolitics in rural America / William Garriott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garriott, William Campbell, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methamphetamine--West Virginia.

Methamphetamine.

Methamphetamine abuse--West Virginia--Prevention.

Methamphetamine abuse.

Drug traffic--Investigation--West Virginia.

Drug traffic.

Methamphetamine abuse--Political aspects--United States.

Police--United States.

Police.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2011.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In its steady march across the United States, methamphetamine has become, to "e former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, “the most dangerous drug in America.” As a result, there has been a concerted effort at the local level to root out the methamphetamine problem by identifying the people at its source—those known or suspected to be involved with methamphetamine. Government-sponsored anti-methamphetamine legislation has enhanced these local efforts, formally and informally encouraging rural residents to identify meth offenders in their communities. Policing Methamphetamine shows what happens in everyday life—and to everyday life—when methamphetamine becomes an object of collective concern. Drawing on interviews with users, police officers, judges, and parents and friends of addicts in one West Virginia town, William Garriott finds that this overriding effort to confront the problem changed the character of the community as well as the role of law in creating and maintaining social order. Ultimately, this work addresses the impact of methamphetamine and, more generally, the war on drugs, on everyday life in the United States.

Contents:

The most dangerous drug in America

It could be here; it could be my neighbor

You can always tell who's using meth

The people you'd never suspect

Against the peace and dignity of the state

What do you do with them?.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780814733004

081473300X

OCLC:

756653058